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To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Related topics: Values Motivational
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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